Ingot vs. Sow

Ingot vs. Sow — Is There a Difference?
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Difference Between Ingot and Sow

Ingotnoun

A solid block of more or less pure metal, often but not necessarily bricklike in shape and trapezoidal in cross-section, the result of pouring out and cooling molten metal, often immediately after smelting from raw ore or alloying from constituents.

Sownoun

A female pig.

Ingotverb

(transitive) To form (scraps of metal) into ingots.

Sownoun

A female bear.

Ingotnoun

a block of metal that is cast in a particular shape for convenient handling

Sownoun

A channel that conducts molten metal to molds.

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Sownoun

A mass of metal solidified in a mold.

Sownoun

A contemptible, often fat woman.

Sownoun

A sowbug.

Sownoun

(military) A kind of covered shed, formerly used by besiegers in filling up and passing the ditch of a besieged place, sapping and mining the wall, etc.

Sowverb

(ambitransitive) To scatter, disperse, or plant (seeds).

When I had sown the field, the day's work was over.As you sow, so shall you reap.

Sowverb

(figurative) To spread abroad; to propagate.

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Sowverb

(figurative) To scatter over; to besprinkle.

Sownoun

an adult female hog

Sowverb

place (seeds) in or on the ground for future growth;

She sowed sunflower seeds

Sowverb

introduce into an environment;

sow suspicion or beliefs

Sowverb

place seeds in or on (the ground);

sow the ground with sunflower seeds